One Pot Cheesy Pasta and Sausage
When you need to get dinner on the table in a hurry, it’s hard to go wrong with pasta. It’s quick, it’s easy, and even picky eaters are happy with it. But let’s face it, if you just serve spaghetti and meatballs every time you’re in a hurry, it gets old pretty fast. So, to keep pasta interesting, you have to mix it up.
For a start, you can swap out the meatballs for delicious smoked sausage. This makes the meal even faster because the sausage is already cooked, so all you have to do is brown it. With some onions, of course, because everything goes better with browned onions.
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Next, you can trade in the plain tomato sauce for a can of fire roasted tomatoes, stretched out with some chicken broth and milk. And to amp up the flavor even more, stir in some cheddar cheese and green onions.
Put it together and what have you got? One Pot Cheesy Pasta and Sausage! This easy one-pot dinner is ready in under half an hour, and it tastes as good as anything you spent all day cooking.
One Pot Cheesy Pasta and Sausage
Ingredients
8 oz. box Penne Pasta
16 oz. pkg. Smoked Sausage, sliced
1 (14 oz) Can Fire Roasted Tomatoes
2 Cups Chicken Broth
2 Cups Shredded Cheddar Cheese
½ Cup Milk
3 Green Onions, diced and divided
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
Directions
1. In a large pot over medium heat, add the oil, sausage, and 2 of the onions for about 5-6 minutes until lightly browned.
2. Add the tomatoes, chicken broth, milk, and pasta. Stir together.
3. Bring this to a boil, turn down and let simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cheese.
4. Serve with the extra green onion for a garnish.
One Pot Cheesy Pasta and Sausage
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Ingredients
- 8 oz. box Penne Pasta
- 16 oz. pkg. Smoked Sausage sliced
- 1 14 oz Can Fire Roasted Tomatoes
- 2 Cups Chicken Broth
- 2 Cups Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- ½ Cup Milk
- 3 Green Onions diced and divided
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
Instructions
- In a large pot over medium heat, add the oil, sausage, and 2 of the onions for about 5-6 minutes until lightly browned.
- Add the tomatoes, chicken broth, milk, and pasta. Stir together.
- Bring this to a boil, turn down and let simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cheese.
- Serve with the extra green onion for a garnish.
Nutrition
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Thank you! This sounds good and easy!! I’m teaching my niece simple recipes for her to cook for her Dad (he has Parkinsons) while her Mom is working. She can add a salad and she is done except clean up!
My family doesn’t like tomatoes any thing I should substitute with ? Are they needed for the juice ? Thinking of putting them in my blender .
Blending them would work great Bianca.
What does “3 of the onions” mean? I see 2 green onions listed in the ingredients…
It’s 3 total, you use 2 in the recipe and 1 for topping 🙂
Can I double this? For instance, if I have 16 ounces of pasta, would I add another two cups of chicken broth and 1/2 extra of milk?
Yes, you sure can!
Made this last night, This was pretty good. I didn’t use all the cheese called for because my one son is not a fan of really cheesy stuff, and turns out my other son didn’t like the cheese in it at all. My husband foiled my dinner plans by eating some of the smoked sausage for lunch, so i added in a diced up chicken breast to make up for the difference. I also used yellow onions instead of the green onions. I would definitely make again, maybe leave the cheese out, the sauce was very good on its own without it.